Florence Price

Florence Beatrice Price (née Smith ; April 9, 1887/88 – June 3, 1953) was an American classical composer , pianist , organist , and music teacher . Born in Little Rock, Arkansas , Price was educated at the New England Conservatory of Music , and was active in Chicago from 1927 until her death in 1953. Price is noted as the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra . Price composed over 300 works: four symphonies , four concertos , as well as choral works, art songs , chamber music , and music for solo instruments. In 2009, a substantial collection of her works and papers was found in her abandoned summer home.

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